Robin Koerner
I Know What Makes You You
What is a person? Or to put the question more personally, what are you? I don’t mean “what are you physically?” No one is referring to...
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Robin Koerner
- Jan 28
- 16 min
How to Get Compensated Every Time a Corporation Lets You Down
Just Not Good Enough We have all had the experience, time after time, of being let down by some large corporation whose services or...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 18, 2021
- 10 min
Don’t Die with the Music Still Inside You (in Memory of my Late Dad)
Two months ago, I flew to my native England to deal with the passing of my father. For years, his now-widow had been by his side to help...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
Your Success Is All Luck - But You Can Make Luck
“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 15, 2021
- 7 min
The Power of Refusal (and a Heuristic for Life)
“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - Somerset Maugham This quotation...
Robin Koerner
- Aug 4, 2020
- 2 min
Greatness, defined?
The first quote in my 240-page commonplace book (see the first blog entry above) is this. If you wish to proceed into the infinite,...
Robin Koerner
- Jun 29, 2020
- 7 min
Does Giving Everything to One Thing Lose You Something?
I think I was the only adult American who didn’t know who Michael Jordan is when the documentary, Last Dance came out. I had heard the...